Condensed to the Point of Explosion: 6 Decades of Abortion Speakouts from the Redstocking Collectives Archives

In this gripping and powerful International Women's Day special, your host, archivist and people's historian golden lionheart collier (he/they), will share historic and timely recordings from their collaborators at Redstockings, a radical leftist feminist lesbian organization founded in 1960 in New York. As a longtime activist and abortion worker themself, golden will share a cultivated selection of recordings from the historic Redstockings 1969 Abortion speakout, organized at a perilous time before Roe v. Wade, and the 1989 20th-year anniversary of the speakout in Washington Square Park interspersed with clips from other feminist oral histories and their own experience as a healthcare worker in this critical but intensely under-siege service. About the 1969 recording directly from Redstockings:

"The original Redstockings abortion speakout in New York City, March 21, 1969. Women, defying law and custom, for the first time tell publicly about their then-criminal abortions.

'We are the ones that have had the abortions... This is why we're here tonight, to make things come home... We are the only experts.' - A woman testifying in 1969."

As we enter a time of unprecedented and ever-increasing attacks on women and birthing people's rights, golden invites us to collectively remember and be deeply inspired by the courage of our living and passed ancestors as we wage our generation's own chapter of this battle.